This standard edition of the Discourses on Art delivered by Sir Joshua Reynolds is now reissued in a new format and with improved illustrations. It has long been recognized as a fundamental text for the study of eighteenth-century English painting, and this edition is generally considered to be the definitive one.Robert R. Wark was Curator of Art Collections at the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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<p>This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...of Vandyck: but there is a heavine in This picture ia now (1797) in the collection of Mr. Hi late of Amsterdam.--M. the effect of the picture, which Vandyck never had, and this is its only defect. At AIX-LA-CHAPELLE. (rubens, ) in the church of the Capuchins, is the Adorations of the Shepherds, by Rubens; it appears to be much damaged, but it never was a very striking picture. There is a print of it by. A Shepherdess, not a very poetical one, is making an offering of a hen's egg to the Virgin, having already given three eggs, which lie by the infant Christ, who is sucking the Virgin: neither of them take any notice of the shepherdess; if the Virgin may be said to be looking at any thing, it is at the egg in the woman's hand. A shepherd with his hand to his hat, as if going to pull it off, appears to be well painted; and the ox is admirably well done. St. Francis receiving the stimata, seems likewise to bt by Rubens, but is not much to be admired., LIEGE. Lairrssk.--In the great church is the Ascension of the Virgin, by Lairsse. Parts of this picture are well painted; but it has no effect upon the whole, from the want of large masses. His manner is not open, and appears too restrained for large pictures. The same defect is observable in pictures of Poussin, where the figures are as large as hfe, and in those of Vanderwerf. We are creatures of habit, and a painter cannot change his habits suddenly; he cannot, like the fallen angels of Milton, increase or diminish at pleasure. LOUVAIN. Aux Dames Blanches. Rubens.--The Adoration of the Magi, by Rubens; a slight performance. The Virgin holds the infant but awkwardly, appearing to pinch the thigh. This picture is said to have been painted in eight days, and he was paid for it 800 florins, about 80/. English. A pri...</p>

The literary works of Sir Joshua Reynolds Volume 2 ; to which is prefixed, a memoir of the author with remarks on his professional character, illustrative of his principles and practice

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The literary works of Sir Joshua Reynolds Volume 3; containing his Discourses, papers in the Idler, the Journal of a tour through Flanders and ... commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of painting

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